Looking at Team Canada, I can tell you that I probably only had heard of 7 or 8 of those players at that time. The media coverage from the NHL 20 years ago was only a few scores in the newspaper, result and the goalscorers. It´s a different story today, to say the least.
Fuhr, Bourque, Coffey, Anderson, Messier, Lemieux, Gretzky and maybe Sutter. The others were unknown to me, then again I didn´t pay that much attention to the swedish league either...
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/worldcup/1987/can.html
The other teams can be found here:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/worldcup/1987/index.html
Aug. 29, 1987
SWE 5 USSR 3
Fuhr, Bourque, Coffey, Anderson, Messier, Lemieux, Gretzky and maybe Sutter. The others were unknown to me, then again I didn´t pay that much attention to the swedish league either...
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/worldcup/1987/can.html
The other teams can be found here:
http://www.hockeycanada.ca/e/teams/mens/worldcup/1987/index.html
Aug. 29, 1987
SWE 5 USSR 3